The Squiggle Sense

TSS Facebook Fan Page

doc — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:09:08 +0000

This post is a short tribute to The Squiggle Sense Facebook fan page, whose fan base is slow growing in the sidebar of The Squiggle Sense Blog. Click on the picture of the page above to take a look if you haven’t already. You can explore this page anytime whether you are a fan or [...]

TSS 2010

doc — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:18:16 +0000

The Squiggle Sense team wishes you a productive and ’squiggly’ 2010. This year, we have set our sights on many large~small projects, all sharing the underlying theme of helping you all to become aware of your squiggle awareness, and getting you started on your own Squiggle Quest. Here is a brief summary of what we [...]

The Squiggleland Challenge…

David Engstrøm — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:20:05 +0000

The Complementary Nature is Linear~Nonlinear

David Engstrøm — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:27:01 +0000

by Tom Holroyd and David A. Engstrøm In school physics classrooms the world over, students are taught to use equations such as dx/dt = f(x, p) + H.O.T. to model nature mathematically. In such equations, f(x, p) is some linear function, and H.O.T. stands for Higher Order Terms, or in other words, stand for nonlinear terms of the [...]

The Squiggle Sense of Learning

doc — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:13:31 +0000

What follows is an excerpt from The Complementary Nature, where we outline a novel learning paradigm. It is framed in a subset of the complementary pairs (squiggles) of coordination dynamics. The complementary aspects of each of these squiggles is in itself a well known phenomenon in learning (or any adaptive process). However, it is often the [...]

Just say “Mtsbwy!”

David Engstrøm — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:03:03 +0000

Mtsbwy! or May the squiggle be with you! This is what we call the squiggle greeting: It means that you wish for the person you greet with it to awaken, be mindful of, or simply appreciate their squiggle sense, that is, their sixth sense of the complementary nature, such that they might transcend detrimental either/or [...]

TSS of Vincent Van Gogh

doc — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:43:31 +0000

“So I am always between two currents of thought, first the material difficulties, turning round and round to make a living; and second, the study of color. I am always in hope of making a discovery there, to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their [...]

The Four Aspects

David Engstrøm — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:21:03 +0000

If you spend a little time looking around The Squiggle Sense blog, you will find a lot of information to ponder. There are many novel concepts, terms and abbreviations to learn. Learning them and how they fit together can at times be a bit bewildering. Luckily, they fit together in a general skema that is more [...]

The Squigglespeak of Fred Cummins

doc — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:51:12 +0000

In Squigglespeak posts, we talk about the squiggle sign (~), and give examples of its use by ourselves and others… The following excerpt comes from the article by Fred Cummins, Deep Affordance: Seeing the Self in the World: Fred Cummins - Cognitive Science Programme - University College Dublin “Let us now consider the Umwelt of the E. Coli [...]

The Squiggle Sense Quotes

doc — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:14:40 +0000

“. . . the two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.” Rules for the Direction of the Mind (1626); TCN p.54 — René Descartes (1596–1650) “…a kind of neural cooperation that renders visible the operative forces of the central nervous system. The Behavioral Physiology [...]

The Squiggle Sense of Body~Mind

David Engstrøm — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:33:21 +0000

body~mind body itself, mind itself, either body or mind, both body and mind, body changing to mind, mind changing to body, between body and mind, neither body nor mind, beyond body and mind…

ASSC8 - The Complementary Nature

doc — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:58:55 +0000

by J. A. Scott Kelso This lecture comes in three “movements” and arises out of a new book (Kelso, J.A.S. & D.A. Engstrom, The Complementary Nature, (2006 MIT Press). The first movement explores the central role of ubiquitous “contrarities” in the history of ideas (both in philosophy and science). We refer to all such contrarities as “complementary pairs” [...]

The Coordination of Life

doc — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:08:01 +0000

by J. A. S. Kelso “The coordination of living things is one of the great mysteries in the science of life. Coordination is in us and all around us. It is everywhere we look–from the coordination among the genes that make us who we are and what we become, to the remarkable coordination among the nerve [...]

The Squiggles of Coordination Dynamics

doc — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:08:44 +0000

“The current CP of CD (squiggle) collection furnishes a kind of consulting tool, an aid to study that can help one better understand the various concepts, principles, and phenomena of coordination dynamics. It also provides a nonmathematical, but no less valid access to coordination dynamics.” TCN p218″ — Kelso, J.A.S & Engstrøm, D.A. Introduction The list of squiggles [...]

Review of Kelso’s Dynamic Patterns

doc — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:21:37 +0000

J. A. Scott Kelso. Dynamic Patterns: the self-organization of brain and behavior. MIT Press. 1995 Review This marvellous book describes a wealth of biological features in terms of the structure of the underlying dynamical space, its bifurcations, and its attractors. This dynamical space is parameterised (say by the frequency of a gait), and as the value of the [...]

Virtual Partner Interaction (VPI): Coordination Dynamics of the Human~Machine

doc — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:28:33 +0000

In a just released scientific journal article entitled ‘Virtual Partner Interaction (VPI): Exploring Novel Behaviors via Coordination Dynamics’, brain scientists Kelso, de Guzman, Reveley and Tognoli have introduced ‘Virtual Partner Interaction (VPI)’: “a coupled dynamical system for studying real time interaction between a human and a machine. In this proof of concept study, human subjects [...]

The Squiggle Sense of The Glass Bead Game

David Engstrøm — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:13:30 +0000

“As long as Knecht permitted the flow of inner images to come without direction, as they do, like dreams, in the initial stage of relaxation, there were two principal scenes which emerged from the stream and lingered, two pictures or symbols, two parables. In the first Knecht, as a boy, followed the Master along a variety [...]

The Squiggle Sense of Dune

David Engstrøm — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:53:40 +0000

“Perfect defenses are not always an advantage. Complete protection can become a hindrance for it limits you in other ways.” House Harkonnen, From The Dune Series — Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson “Body and mind are two phenomena, observed under different conditions, but of one and the same ultimate reality. Body and mind are aspects of the [...]

Can An Electron Be Two Places At One Time?

doc — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:29:48 +0000

MAX PLANCK SOCIETY Press Release News C / 2005 (43) “Max Planck Researchers in Berlin show that for electrons from nitrogen molecules, the wave-particle character exists simultaneously The double-slit was voted the most beautiful experiment of all time in a 2002 poll by Physics World, published by the UK’s Institute of Physics. Although each electron seems to [...]

The Squiggle Sense of the Vitruvian Man

David Engstrøm — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:32:32 +0000

From Wikipedia on The Vitruvian Man: “This image exemplifies the blend of art and science during the Renaissance and provides the perfect example of Leonardo’s keen interest in proportion. In addition, this picture represents a cornerstone of Leonardo’s attempts to relate man to nature. Encyclopaedia Britannica online states, “Leonardo envisaged the great picture chart of [...]

The Complementary Nature

doc — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:52:09 +0000

Overview J. A. Scott Kelso and David A. Engstrøm have written The Complementary Nature to summarize their research plan. In this book, Kelso and Engstrøm contend that ubiquitous contraries are complementary and propose a comprehensive, empirically-based scientific theory of how the polarized world and the world in between can be reconciled. They nominate the squiggle (~), [...]

Squigglespeak of the Day

doc — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:44:10 +0000

In Squigglespeak posts, we talk about the squiggle sign (~), and give examples of its use by ourselves and others… The Squiggle (~) Symbol: “The squiggle (~) is our symbol connecting contraries and other mutually and inextricably connected events, processes, etc. … The squiggle symbol is dynamic. It’s symbolism is incluces both timeless and of time qualities. [...]

The Metastable Brain: Coordination Dynamics of Binding and its Breakdown

doc — Sun, 10 May 2009 13:18:42 +0000

by J. A. Scott Kelso A considerable amount of evidence and theory suggests that transient, short-lived phase-coupled oscillations within and between specialized areas of the brain provide a mechanism for neural integration. The idea is that these oscillations are coupled or “bound” together into a coherent network when people attend to a stimulus, perceive, remember, think [...]

Theoretical Foundations of Coordination Dynamics

doc — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:33:04 +0000

by Viktor Jirsa, November 9th, 2005 Researchers in the field of Coordination Dynamics aim to identify general laws of pattern formation in human movements rather than searching for a locus of movement pattern generation. This approach is inspired by ideas borne by the theory of Dynamic Systems and Self-organization. Over the last two decades a rhythmic movement paradigm [...]

An Overview of Coordination Dynamics

doc — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:32:23 +0000

TSS: In the following excerpts of J. A. Scott Kelso’s introduction speech to the Coordination Dynamics 2002 Meeting, we are given still another useful overview of coordination dynamics, a brief flyover of its history and central themes. Note the section heading, ‘TCN of CD and Origins of Agency: Directed Self-Organization,’ whose title alone is already [...]